Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"There is no such thing as an ugly woman - there are only the ones who do not know how to make themselves attractive."
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Ugly
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Osamu Dazai
Novelist
"A true artist is an ugly man."
Frederick The Great
King
"Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl."
John Steinbeck
Novelist, Journalist
"There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension."
Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else."
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"A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts."
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"After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?."
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"I bet you’re not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute?"
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"I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly."
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"If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma."
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"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."
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"Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own."
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"There were no ugly people in Ethiopia"
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"There is no such thing as an ugly woman."
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"I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do."
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"Every time I stand in front of mirror, I found my face too ugly, so I thought I have to get the role in some movies which cover my face with make up."
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"If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty."
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"Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?"
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"There are no ugly ducklings."
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"When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking."
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"Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare."
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"Lookin' for love in all the wrong places, no fine girls just ugly faces."
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"A woman with good shoes i never ugly!"
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"You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal."
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"Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly."
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